India fires three officers for accidentally launching missile into Pakistan
Story by Reuters The Indian Air Force said on Tuesday the government had sacked three officers for accidentally firing a missile into Pakistan in…
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Former Malaysian leader to serve prison term after final appeal is thrown out
By Heather Chen and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Malaysia’s former prime minister will be sent to prison for his role in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB…
Continue ReadingNearly 100 dead in Afghanistan floods, officials say
By Tara Subramaniam, Masoud Popalzai and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Flash flooding has killed at least 95 people, injured hundreds of others and swept away…
Continue ReadingWildfires rage as China’s Chongqing suffers unrelenting record heat wave
By Shawn Deng, Simone McCarthy and CNN’s Beijing bureau Thousands of emergency responders are battling to contain fast-spreading wildfires in…
Continue ReadingPhilippines returns to school for just one day as storm forces classrooms in north to close again
By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A tropical storm forced schools to close across the northern Philippines on Tuesday — just one day after in-person…
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Hotel Haegumgang: The sad and surprising story of North Korea’s floating hotel
It was once an exclusive five-star resort floating directly over Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. For years, it sat dilapidated in a North Korean…
Continue ReadingAt least 32 killed in India as monsoonal rains lash northern states
By Swati Gupta, CNN and Reuters At least 32 people have died since Friday in flash flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoonal rains in two…
Continue ReadingAustralian police find ‘extraordinary’ fentanyl stash, enough for 5 million doses
By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Australian Federal Police say they’ve seized more than 5 million doses of fentanyl, the largest shipment of the opioid…
Continue ReadingWoman believed to be mother of children found dead in suitcases is in South Korea, say Seoul police
By Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN A woman believed to be the mother of two children whose remains were found in suitcases in New Zealand earlier…
Continue ReadingPakistan’s former PM Imran Khan investigated by police under anti-terror law
By Sophia Saifi and Rhea Mogul, CNN Pakistani authorities are investigating whether former prime minister Imran Khan violated anti-terror laws and…
Continue ReadingChina flexes military muscles, then targets Taiwan’s citrus fruits
CNN By Eric Cheung, Gladys Tsai and Blake Essig, CNN For the last 18 years, Li Meng-han and his family have grown pomelos in a rural town near the…
Continue ReadingChina flexes military muscles, then targets Taiwan’s citrus fruits
By Eric Cheung, Gladys Tsai and Blake Essig, CNN For the last 18 years, Li Meng-han and his family have grown pomelos in a rural town near the…
Continue ReadingSingapore to repeal colonial era law criminalizing sex between men, says prime minister
By Heather Chen, Wayne Chang and Tara John, CNN Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the country will repeal the…
Continue ReadingIf North Korea has Covid beat, why buy 1 million face masks from China?
By Reuters North Korea imported more than 1 million facial masks and 15,000 pairs of rubber gloves from China in July, shortly before declaring…
Continue ReadingChinese city swabs freshly caught seafood for Covid-19
CNN By Tara Subramaniam The Chinese coastal city of Xiamen is testing freshly caught fish, crabs and even shrimp for Covid-19 as it goes all out to…
Continue ReadingChina must show it’s not an ‘agent of instability’ on Taiwan, US Ambassador to China says
Exclusive by Selina Wang, Sandi Sidhu and Simone McCarthy, CNN China needs to convince the rest of the world it is not an “agent of…
Continue ReadingChina issues first nationwide drought alert in 9 years
By CNN’s Beijing Bureau Chinese authorities issued a nationwide drought warning for the first time in nine years as the country copes with…
Continue ReadingChinese-Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua sentenced to 13 years in prison
By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese-Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison, more than five years after the billionaire was…
Continue ReadingChinese city swabs freshly caught seafood for Covid-19
By Tara Subramaniam The Chinese coastal city of Xiamen is testing freshly caught fish, crabs and even shrimp for Covid-19 as it goes all out to…
Continue ReadingNorth Korea rejects South’s aid offer, calls President Yoon ‘really simple’
By Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea has rejected South Korea’s offer of economic support in exchange for denuclearization, saying…
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